Nd: Gaza 25/12/2023

this morning (monday 25th), 5.11-5.15am, 5.19-5.24am (partly repeated 6.47am), 5.30-5.31am, 6.07-6.13am, 6.17-6.23am, 7.06-7.11am, 7.16-7.25am, 7.30-7.31am, and 7.33-7.27am, on bbc world service radio 

newsday (presented by devina gupta and rob young) leads with …

“In a show of solidarity with people in Gaza, the Christmas festivities in Bethlehem have been cancelled.

Hamas: seventy people killed in airstrike in Gaza.

A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin looking at the life of Jewish Germans in the former East Germany, the GDR.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter shaimaa khalil

• analyst behnam ben taleblu

• analyst arieh kovler 

• bernard sabella, bethlehem university

• journalist owen alterman

• bbc reporter ebina schirach

• bbc arabic reporter abdel basir hassan

Nd: Gaza 30/11/2023

this morning (thursday 30th), 5.12-5.17am, 5.33-5.43am, 6.12-6.18am, 6.33-6.44am, 7.07-7.22am, 7.28am, 7.30-7.31am, and 7.33-7.38am, on bbc world service radio 

newsday (presented by victoria uwonkunda and james copnall) includes …

“Twelve more Israeli hostages – and four Thai citizens – are now back in Israel as the temporary truce has been extended for a seventh day.”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter shaimaa khalil

• activist budour hassan, amnesty international

• activist shaina low, norwegian refugee council

• journalist owen alterman

• journalist carrie keller-lynn

• former diplomat martin indyk 

• hagai levine, hostages and missing families forum

• bbc reporter hugo bachega

Nd: Coalition possible

this morning (monday 31st), 5.06-5.11am, 6.06-6.11am, and 7.06-7.11am, on bbc world service radio 

newsday (presented by lawrence pollard and karnagie sharp) leads with …

“Netanyahu: ‘coalition is threat to Israel’s security’.

Israel’s right-wing leader Naftali Bennett backs a deal to oust Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The proposed coalition would include parties from the right, left and centre of Israeli politics.”

including interviews with …

• journalist owen alterman 

• journalist tal schneider 

• professor david newman 

Nd: Policing of clashes

this morning (friday 14th), **6.06-6.11am, 6.33-6.38am, 7.06-7.14am, and 7.33-7.38am, on bbc world service radio 

(**for unknown reasons, the 5.06am versions of newsday are not being made available online)

newsday (presented by bola mosuro and james copnall) leads with …

“We have a special report from the streets of Israel where mixed communities of Jews and Arabs have been clashing.

So are the Israeli police doing enough to tackle the violence?”

“Will there be a ground excursion into Gaza?”

including contributions from …

• owen alterman, institute of national security studies, tel aviv 

• historian louis fishman, author of jews and palestinians in the late ottoman era 

• bbc reporter yolande knell 

• lod resident tahel harris 

• lod resident gilad drori 

• lod resident shareen 

• lod resident singer tamer nafar

• police spokesman micky rosenfeld 

• bbc reporter paul adams

Newsday: refugees in Israel

yesterday morning (wednesday 21st), 5.11-5.17am, 5.33-5.42am, 6.07-6.16am, 6.33-6.42am, 7.07-7.17am, 7.33-7.42am, and 8.07-8.16am, on bbc world service radio
newsday (presented by julian keane and lawrence pollard) leads with …

“Israel’s Plan To Expel Eritreans and Sudanese:
Nomia Iqbal covers the raging debate about the government’s plans to deport thousand of East African asylum seekers to a third country in Africa.”

including interviews with …
• owen alterman, senior international affairs correspondent of i24
• taj haroun of darfur
• yonatan jakubowicz, director of public relations, the israel immigration policy centre
• rabbi susan silverman of sanctuary
• ilanit chernick of the jerusalem post
• volunteer sophia hogan

WHYS: Israeli elections

yesterday evening (tuesday 17th), 6.18-6.28pm, and 6.32-6.44pm, on bbc world service radio (freeview channel 710 or 107)
world have your say (presented by ann arwen in israel) leads with …

“Israelis are voting in an election which could decide Benjamin Netanyahu’s political fate and the prospects for peace with the Palestinians. We’ll hear from voters why this election matters to them and what their hopes and fears are for the days and weeks ahead.”

including contributions from …
• eli peart of likud
• owen alterman, researcher with the inss (institute for national security studies) in tel aviv
• zvi landau, web designer
• anat balint of the seventh eye
• diana buttu, former spokesman for the palestine liberation organisation